http://www.indybay.org/newsitems/2006/10/09/18319274.php
via http://indymediawatch.blogspot.com
>..."Who is Eric? A human being. A fifteen-year old freshman at Weston High School in Cazenovia, Wisconsin. On September 29, 2006, he shot and killed school principal John Klang. He has been charged as an adult with first-degree murder and faces life in prison.
Why should we support him? Because in his own way, Eric had the courage to fight back against a school system that psychologically molests us every day, deprives us of autonomy and freedom, runs our spirits through a conveyor belt of discipline and coercion to spit out obedient workers and slaves. Eric followed his heart's fiery anger and struck back with the desperation of caged animal, against the system that confined him and dominated his life."
[WS:] Michael, I think I understand why you posted this tripe, as well as why you post anti-Semitic drivel dredged from the gutters of the internet, but I also think that such didactic approach to bullshit has its limits.
You see, every speech act always has two elements in it - the right to say what one wants and the privilege to be heard by others. The former is guaranteed by the constitution and cannot - and should not - be easily denied. The latter, however, is granted at will by the audience. Therefore, reacting with indignation to drivel expressed by probably deranged individuals (or pranksters,) or worse yet trying to silence them, de facto grants these individuals what they do not have and what can otherwise be easily denied to them- the privilege of being heard.
This is why denouncing these people does them a favor, while ignoring (or shunning) them and switching channels effectively denies them what they crave - public attention.
Wojtek